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Progress Report: Hurricane Sandy Recovery – One Year Later

In this testimony, I will summarize the Northeast Corridor’s role from a national perspective, offer a summary of safety concerns and actions we took following the storm, give an update on our management of recovery funding to date, and an overview of our NEC FUTURE study.

Alternative Occupied Volume Integrity (OVI) Tests and Analyses

FRA, supported by the Volpe Center, conducted research on alternative methods of evaluating occupied volume integrity (OVI) in passenger railcars. Guided by this research, an alternative methodology for evaluating OVI that ensures an equivalent or greater level of safety than that provided by the...